09Jul 2019 by DS News Team
Markus Cramer Reveals What He Really Thinks

Markus Cramer Reveals What He Really Thinks

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Markus Cramer is not only one of the world's best xcski coaches of this century. He's also very open and direct in expressing his opinions without being brusque. Here are some of his views on recent developments in international competitions and more talked-about events of the last season, derived from several conversations in the recent months: And dont miss for Part 2 where Markus talks about what he learned by working with the Russians.... [caption id="attachment_12086" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Alpe Cermis as a mass start? - I am NOT happy with that idea. In at least two of the last three TdS series that final race was very interesting - in men's program at least. Now it will be messy fighting in tight curves on ascent.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_12093" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Bad:…
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29Mar 2019 by DS News Team
We Look At Those Who Trouble Comfortable And Comfort Troubled.

We Look At Those Who Trouble Comfortable And Comfort Troubled.

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Yep, it's a quote. Attributed to the great Australian coach Ric Charlesworth: "The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled" Here are some of the best of trouble dispensers & comforters in the great sport of cross country skiing. [caption id="attachment_10744" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Yuri Charkovsky, a doyen of coaching corps of the world is 77. He would still outrun vast majority of people half his age on the tracks/ Charkovsky is no longer coaching but he's director of Team Russia responsible for all the logistics of his 100+ people team[/caption] [caption id="attachment_10752" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Team Norway's manager Vidar Lofshus has had enough of his tough job. After dozens of golden medals won under his watch, Lofshus is resigning from the national…
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28Jan 2019 by DS News Team
Legendary German Coach Jochen Behle Speaks His Mind

Legendary German Coach Jochen Behle Speaks His Mind

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Quick memory refresher: Jochen Behle, 58 For ten years, from 2002 till 2012, Behle was a senior coach of the German national cross-country skiing team. And his decade at the helm was, without a question, the best German skiing ever saw.  Rene Sommerfeldt, Axel Teichmann, Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle, Claudia Nystad, Tobias Angerer to name but a few went and  won just about about everything: Olympic and world championship medals, WСup stages and overall World Cup titles. German successes largely ended when Behle quit his job [caption id="attachment_10065" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Behle watching World Cup race in Dresden[/caption] ...Talking to Jochen Behle is a sheer pleasure. He's friendly, fluent English speaker and, most importantly, he does not mince his words. Without caring much who's feathers he might ruffle with his next phrase. The…
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15May 2017 by DS News Team
Top Trainer Prefers Liechtenstein to Switzerland

Top Trainer Prefers Liechtenstein to Switzerland

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This is the Olympic season, and most top coaches dream of the medals their racers will win in PyeongChang. Not so the senior trainer of the Swiss cross-country ski team, Albert "Bärti" Manhart. The 50-year-old Swiss was a junior trainer of Dario Cologna and has progressed with him, so to speak, to end up in charge of the whole Swiss team, both male and female. With Cologna in shape and the up-and-coming stars such as Nathalie von Siebenthal and Nadine Fähndrich growing in strengh year by year, the Team Swiss had a very good shot at the medals at the Olympics. Still does – but now without Manhart. "A certain fatigue has set in. I feel burnt out, need some pause and rest." he told the Swiss newspaper Blick upon…
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